the Mayku FormBox; an ideal partner for your 3D printer

Mayku is a young startup that launched FormBox, a desktop tool that works like a vacuum machine. After their success on Kickstarter, where they raised more than $ 550,000. The company began commercialisation: this machine allows you to create all kinds of objects; from molds to flower pots to soaps, simply by plugging in your vacuum cleaner. The startup aims to change the way we manufacture today and says it can be an ideal partner for your 3D printer. The Mayku FormBox would indeed be able to produce the molds of your 3D prints: you just have to place your 3D printed object on the machine tray and it is responsible for making the corresponding mold. We wanted to know more about this little machine and met the International Marketing Director, Daniel Mark Carr.

3DN: Can you introduce the Mayku startup?

Founded in 2015, Mayku was started by two London based design entrepreneurs, Alex Smilansky and Benjamin Redford, and the pair intended to change the way our things are made forever. The FormBox is Mayku’s first creation, which gives people the power to create incredible things – as simply as baking a cake. They’re building the world’s first Desktop Factory, a family of mini-machines to make creating products as simple as cooking.

Benjamin Redford (left) and Alex Smilansky, co-founders of Makyu

3DN: How does the FormBox work? What is its link with 3D printing?

The FormBox is a desktop vacuum former which when used alongside a 3D printer, allows users to produce molds of their 3D prints in seconds. These molds can then be used to replicate a 3D model in a variety of materials, countless times, allowing rapid prototyping and design work in minutes instead of hours or days. The FormBox can also be used to create packaging, product prototypes and plastic items such as drone casing.